Sabatier, Guilhelmine
Biografie
Jan Dewilde (translation: Joris Duytschaever)
The Brussels composer Guilhelmine Rose Agnes Sabatier composed plenty of songs and works for piano. Her 4 Rêveries pour piano were published by the Brussels publishing house of Meyne, and several of her vocal works (such as the “dramatic scene” Espoir et deuil) appeared in the music magazine La Belgique musicale.
Sabatier, while serving as court pianist to the queen of the Belgians in the 1840s, concurrently gave many solo recitals and also performed regularly with the cello virtuoso François De Munck. She was married to Louis-Eugène Amelot, from Mechelen, himself an excellent amateur violinist, but she continued appearing under her own name. This was quite exceptional, for most female musicians abandoned their maiden name after their marriage and resolutely adopted the name of their husband.
Bibliografie
Anderen over deze componist
- De Schrijver, K.: Amelot, Sabatier, Guillielmine-Rose, in: Biografie der Belgische Toonkunstenaars sedert 1800, Leuven, 1958, p. 12.
- Dewilde, J.: Guilhelmine, Thérèse, Marguerite en Maria: toonkunstenaressen en musiciennes uit de 19de eeuw, in: Forum, september-oktober 2002, p. 13-17.
- Gregoir, E.: Amelot (Madme) - Ancelot (Madame), in: Galerie biographique des artistes-musiciens belges du XVIIIme et du XIXme siècle, Brussel, 1862, p. 7.
- Gregoir, E.: Amelot-Sabatier (Guillielmine-Rose-Agnès-Ghislaine), in: Les artistes-musiciens belges au XVIIIme et au XIXme siècle, Brussel, 1885, p. 15 & p. 356-357.
- Roquet, F.: Sabatier, Guillielmine-Rose-Agnès-Ghislaine, in: Lexicon Vlaamse componisten geboren na 1800, Roeselare, 2007, p. 613.